New York Young Republican Clubs' Back to the 80's Capitalist Ball

New York Young Republican Club (ind.) ^ | Ron Lewenberg

[rmlew]

Take a short break from campaigning and from mourning the performance of our baseball teams and have some fun this week.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Half of that music was crap. (Musicians strongly anti-GOP/anti-family).

Some of the movies were good, though, during that time. :-)

[bert]

NYC Young Republicans bump......

[VU4G10]

[Clemenza]

Should I wear parachute pants and a Ghostbusters T-Shirt? Maybe a guido shell suit like JJ like to wear?

[Tribune7]

Here you go. My contribution to the thread.

[rmlew]

Half of that music was crap. (Musicians strongly anti-GOP/anti-family).
This has been true since at least 1960

[Clemenza]

I would go back even farther, to the 1950s, when the likes of Pete Seegar and the Kingston Trio were singing songs praising Cuban Communists and 19th Century anarchists.

[rmlew]

Pete Seeger was an open communist.
You do have a point about the 1930's "folk singers", who got their marching orders from the Kremlin.

[Clemenza]

There was a movie that I saw years ago (Bob Roberts) which starred Tim Robbins as a right wing folk singer. Although he meant it as an attack on Reaganite Republicans (it came out in GHWB's first term for those who are interested), some of the songs are hysterical parodies of old Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger songs, my favorite being "This Land is MY Land."

[AmericanInTokyo]

might have a point there

[Checkers]

"WOLVERINES!!!!"

[Checkers]

Here ya go:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFVTY7WLO0k

[Checkers]

"I love it when a plan comes together."

[PDR]

will they be honoring the guys who used to run the NY Young Republican club who are now in jail for murder and other such things (or at least they were last time I checked).

[NYC Republican]

bump

[The_Reader_David]

Yeah, '80's youth culture sucked.

Of course, youth culture wasn't the point of the '80's. I think the retrospective misses the really good cultural feature of the '80's: yuppie-ism, the whole cultural movement of imitating the old rich that brought us classic-styled clothing, and lots and lots of *really* good restaraunts, availability of ingredients for real gourmet cooking (as opposed to 'gourmet' cooking), imported cars with good production values, and all the other benefits of the '80's that weren't a result of the brilliant policies, both foreign and domestic, of Ronaldus Magnus.

(On FR there is no need to wax effusive about the benefits which *were* the result of Reagan's policies, since we all know them well.)

[NYCynic]

I think the retrospective misses the really good cultural feature of the '80's: yuppie-ism, the whole cultural movement of imitating the old rich that brought us classic-styled clothing,

That's not my recollection of yuppie-ism at all. I remember pony-tailed architects wearing black turtlenecks and saluting all things European. I am a big fan of Regan, but I was never a big fan of the 80's in NY: cocaine, crack, subway violence, Koch and Dinkins. Not my idea of a good time.

[rmlew]

will they be honoring the guys who used to run the NY Young Republican club who are now in jail for murder and other such things (or at least they were last time I checked).
There was no murder, no one was in jail.
There was only a conspiracy to frame someone for soliictation of a homicide. (Aren't New York Politics fun?)

[PDR]

I stand corrected... although I seem to recall Adam Kidan was an officer of the NY Young Republican Club for a period of time.